ONE of the sectors that took a beating at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic was education. The Unicef (United Nations International Children's Emergency Fund), which continues to advocate for the resumption of in-person classes in various countries, has noted that while schools globally were forced to suspend operations for an average of 79 days, those in the Philippines did not hold face-to-face classes for over a year and opted instead to conduct classes through online and distant learning modalities.

The indefinite suspension of classes and the subsequent and abrupt shift to new learning modalities created challenges such as unequal access to gadgets and online resources, particularly for marginalized students. This was another blow to the country, which prior to the pandemic was already struggling to raise the quality of basic education.

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